Mr. Özil, you have inherited the shirt number 10 of Lukas Podolski. That was no coincidence, right?
You’re right. For me, the number means a lot. It is my favorite number. Football legends such as Zinedine Zidane, Diego Maradona or Pelé have this number carried on the back. I’m really happy about it.
In Arsenal, the number is also free …
Yes, it has become free, and I will definitely have.
That is, stay at Arsenal and to accept the offer to extend …
Özil laughs you want to entice me.
I’ll try …
I have a contract until 2018. We have had discussions, but which have been suspended due to the EM. I wanted to focus at this time only to the national team. Now we look to continue the negotiations.
Certainly reads better than some of noise coming out of the Alexis camp. Part of me has already written off having Alexis sign a new deal, but I’m hoping Özil would sign one more contract with us!
Purely from a career perspective, if he wants to win things, he has to leave next summer. Him not extending his contract would be fully understandable. One of the reasons why 15/16 is always going to sting tbh.
Give him the number, deserves it more than Jack. I love Jack but it’s time to put sentiment aside and go for the league. No more fragile fairies at Arsenal.
It does seem that Wenger has either been told to phase out the injury prone players or the lazy ones etc (theo and ox should play for their lives) and he is going for no fucking around this season, hopefully, it continues…I think Theo and Ox should be in the last chance saloon, Chambers and Wilshere loaned, it looks like the club is slowly moving away from underperforming and injury prone players and trying to build a strong squad. Maybe I am saying this too soon but we look to be moving in the right direction.